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Programming with Python
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a couple of suggestions after reading the lesson #391

Open nden opened 7 years ago

nden commented 7 years ago

On one occasion the lesson mentions aliasing a package during import as in import numpy as np Perhaps it's worth mentioning the construct from ... import ... which is also very often used in scientific software and warn against using from ... import *.

While reading the section "Analyzing Patient data" I thought a call to the matplotlib colorbar() function after the imshow() call would be useful.

cleary3 commented 6 years ago

On one occasion the lesson mentions aliasing a package during import as in import numpy as np Perhaps it's worth mentioning the construct from ... import ... which is also very often used in scientific software and warn against using from ... import *.

As I understand it, the Python lessons in Software Carpentry are trying to teach basic programming skills and concepts with Python as a vehicle for the instruction. Software Carpentry is explicitly not trying to teach Python. The various import styles show above are very Python specific and likely don't belong in the Software Carpentry lessons.